Wow, Marlorena. Your neighbours are so extremely lucky. "Surpasse Tout" is gorgeous, while the fourth picture is a foreigner-like-me's idea of an English garden.š
@andrewnewton .. I think it's about 6 or 7 years old now.. I just feed and mulch in Spring.Ā I only prune lightly, to maintain shape in Spring and deadhead in summer..Ā it's thornless too, so very easy to care for.. thanks..Ā
@Fire, nice to hear your tea in garden went well. If I plan to come to that side, I will try to visit. If any of the rose crew come around southwest London, you are welcome to visit my garden.Ā
Some purplish roses today, love song, young lycidas and rapsody in blue. They are looking more pink in photos than real. All three have nice purple tones in real.Ā
Well just back from a lovely break on the coast but rather busy and boozy with wider family get togethers. Need a few days to recover now but instead have a lot of watering and deadheading to catch up on. Iāll tackle that tomorrow! Missed the first bloom on Souvenir de Marcel Proust but others have kindly held on.
@murasaki Munstead Wood is my best performing Austin in full sun so I agree with your local expert there, but yes they do suffer from the famous Austin droop. I find LoS does better in afternoon shade, the blooms can fry, it sulks and the foliage is poorly in very hot summer sun.
Some musings on roses and heat..
Most roses actually do better with some afternoon shade in hot climates - there is a noticeable difference between the health and performance of roses in my east garden (morning sun) and west garden (midday and afternoon sun). So in a hot climate, if you can create some afternoon shade areas for your roses they will really thank you for it.
I have to disagree with the view that roses do better in full, hot sun in hot climates, although I donāt have a Mediterranean climate so canāt speak for that specifically. I follow a lady in Crete who has the most fabulous rose garden but she has the benefit of the more temperate Med climate than I do plus the all-important wet winters and dry summers.
Here, most bushes/shrubs don't get bigger for me but do put out more annoying octopus canes perhaps. Some Austins certainly express their climbing tendencies more (GJ, TP) others stay fairly small (HC, MW, LEH, DB).
I would say roses are much LESS floriferous than in the UK. I never seem to get the same voluptuous full flushes and many go into dormancy in summer so there is a huge bloom gap.
I also have high disease pressures as my summers are both hot and humid. I have three different types of rose slug, some of which have repeated reproduction cycles so there is no rest from foliage decimation.
It takes a massive amount of hard work and care to make my roses perform so it really is a labour of love!Ā
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Still catching upā¦Ā @Victoria Sponge no I didnāt get Thisbe in the end, it was part of my Lens order that I had to cancel. I was primarily ordering from them to get a GdF standard but the postal costs were horrendous so I sourced one much cheaper from France.
Fabulous roses all, but special mention to Sunshine Babylon Eyes, what a colour @newbie77.Ā
@WhereAreMySecateurs my standard is on a metal umbrella stand, finished with a hammerite type paint! For wooden stakes maybe one of those natural chalk type paints? If you have ties between the stake and the rose trunk I donāt think any paint would present a problem though.
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Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Oh my goodness what rose riches, catching up is such a treat. We've had guests so been busy. Like @Fire I provided sponge but mine had to be gluten and dairy free, Jamie O does the best I've made btw. And like Fire a guest was enthused to have a rose, I put her on to the DA website where so many start.
@Omori. your MIP is divine , mine had better up its game but I know I really need to find space in the ground. Your photos are always so good, a real pleasure to see. No rain here though.
I agree with Victoria Sponge @newbie77 Babylon Eyes is a stunner and Shropshire Lad looks gorgeous, it wasn't even on my radar.
You make it really hard to hold firm to my only repeat bloomers rule here @Marlorena. your MLdB shows what a rose really could be. But I'm aready hating the sadness of deadheading after a flush, having to wait a year would be torture.
I thought your CdeN might be a fern @Woodgreen could not work it out at all, wow what an unusual thing, thank you for showing us.
I have SW-E @Eustace too, I didn't choose it but find it incredibly pretty and so dead white, it doesn't shatter as fast as I was led to believe so I'm really glad I have it.
I have Eye of the Tiger too whoever was asking. I like it and visitors always comment, I think the eye ones are not often seen in public parks given how people think it is so unusual. Mine is 3 years here,bought potted,Ā and about 70cm high and spread.
Had a wander round deadheading and taking photos. No idea what I should pick to show so a few collages
Sandringham, Blackberry Nip, Boscobel and The Prince
Climbers have all now filled their space for the first time WOH, GdeF and Blush NoisetteFaustinia's first bloom, smells strongly of aniseed, I am so pleased with this very pretty little pale lemon newbie, Chandos Beauty, Teasing Georgia and Burgundy IceOther garden highlights RiB, EotT, an unmatched pair Hagley Hybrid and Bathsheba, TGGPotted highlights, Ebb Tide and Odyssey, Scarborough Fair, Utopia and Artemis
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'Surpasse Tout' which is scenting my greenhouse..
'Wild Rover'..
..and 'Cornelia'..
@andrewnewton
.. I think it's about 6 or 7 years old now.. I just feed and mulch in Spring.Ā I only prune lightly, to maintain shape in Spring and deadhead in summer..Ā it's thornless too, so very easy to care for.. thanks..Ā
Some purplish roses today, love song, young lycidas and rapsody in blue. They are looking more pink in photos than real. All three have nice purple tones in real.Ā
@murasaki Munstead Wood is my best performing Austin in full sun so I agree with your local expert there, but yes they do suffer from the famous Austin droop. I find LoS does better in afternoon shade, the blooms can fry, it sulks and the foliage is poorly in very hot summer sun.
Some musings on roses and heat..
Most roses actually do better with some afternoon shade in hot climates - there is a noticeable difference between the health and performance of roses in my east garden (morning sun) and west garden (midday and afternoon sun). So in a hot climate, if you can create some afternoon shade areas for your roses they will really thank you for it.
I have to disagree with the view that roses do better in full, hot sun in hot climates, although I donāt have a Mediterranean climate so canāt speak for that specifically. I follow a lady in Crete who has the most fabulous rose garden but she has the benefit of the more temperate Med climate than I do plus the all-important wet winters and dry summers.
I would say roses are much LESS floriferous than in the UK. I never seem to get the same voluptuous full flushes and many go into dormancy in summer so there is a huge bloom gap.
I also have high disease pressures as my summers are both hot and humid. I have three different types of rose slug, some of which have repeated reproduction cycles so there is no rest from foliage decimation.
It takes a massive amount of hard work and care to make my roses perform so it really is a labour of love!Ā
Fabulous roses all, but special mention to Sunshine Babylon Eyes, what a colour @newbie77.Ā
Less text more roses next timeā¦
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